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Top stories to get the day rolling on this wet morning: The saddest Rachael Ray song ever, the best salmon news of the year so far, a four-star restaurant that is breaking the mold, and many more good reads from around the web.

A review of Naschmarkt, an Austrian restaurant in Campbell: “Naschmarkt, which takes its name from Vienna’s open-air market, is no caricature. You won’t see lederhosen, dirndls or big steins of beer here. Instead, traditional Austrian specialties like Wiener schnitzel and goulash share the bill of fare with hearty (but not heavy) dishes marrying Austrian influences with a California aesthetic.” [SJ Mercury News]

In a notable four-star shift, critic Phil Vettel gives four stars to Chicago’s unconventional fine dining restaurant, Blackbird: “… the food at this 14-year-old restaurant is exemplary (more on that in a moment), there are aspects to the dining experience that are anathema to long-held notions of four-star dining … Yet there is a growing sense that these fine-dining trappings have become the fringe on our culinary lampshade — nice if you like that sort of thing, but ultimately unimportant.” [Chicago Tribune]

Now that there’s Fluffed Marshmallow vodka and Peanut Butter vodka, you can now make Fluffernutter shots. [Laughing Squid]

Yesterday, the NPR song of the day was David Mead’s melancholy ballad titled “The Smile of Rachael Ray.” As NPR describes it, there might never be more heartbreaking Christmas song about Rachael Ray. The video is above, since it’s perfect for this gloomy SF weather, and some of the better lyrics follow;”"Rachael’s gonna show us how it’s done/in 30 minutes she’ll be gone/Rachael never ages, never changes, never hints that anything/could’ve ever been wrong … may your memories never fade/like the smile of Rachael Ray.” [via NPR]